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Guillermo Rauch

Co-founder and CEO of Vercel, a web deployment and hosting platform, and creator of open-source tools like Next.js and Socket.io.

Known aliases

  • Rauch
  • rauchg
  • @rauchg

Current stories

buildOne report1 publisher

Open-weight models took 78.4% of Vercel gateway tokens on a single September day

Guillermo Rauch's daily snapshot counts tokens inside one managed gateway's self-selected traffic. Vercel's monthly index carries the figure that prices the routing decision, 56% of tokens against 14% of estimated spend.

Publishers:runtimewire.com

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption62
Hype gap+34
Incentives82
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

Lovable's next product is your app's tool surface, served by a hosted MCP server

The company defines a capability as a function an agent calls without opening the app. At a $13.3bn valuation on a $500m run rate, the second interface is the part being priced.

Publishers:latent.space

Reality

Evidence32
Adoption34
Hype gap+34
Incentives80
Confidence38
investOne report1 publisher

Cursor ships Origin to paying users as GitHub's outage count reaches 257

Origin keeps GitHub as the source of truth. That is both the reason engineering orgs can try it this quarter and the reason it is not yet an exit.

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption22
Hype gap+32
Incentives68
Confidence34
productOne report1 publisher

Cheap bug-hunting arrives: GLM 5.3 puts near-frontier vulnerability discovery on your own hardware

Z.ai says its new open-weight model nears Anthropic and OpenAI on cybersecurity benchmarks. Full download access is two weeks out, which makes patch cadence the variable that matters.

Publishers:wired.com

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption27
Hype gap+38
Incentives74
Confidence41